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by recondite 3y ago
We have both a Model Y (late-2020) and Model 3 (2022), and the 50-60% estimate definitely reflects my experience with the MY. Not so much the M3. I chalk it up to doing most of my driving (90%) on California freeways going 70+ mph most of t
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by recondite 4y ago
Obligatory mention of Asimov's "Last Question" https://astronomy.org/moravian/C00-Last%20Question.pdf
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by recondite 8y ago
Are you me? I have the exact same symptoms, especially the left arm pain and panic attacks. Full heart checkup and nothing was found to be wrong but I always suspected it had to do with my nervous system.
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by recondite 9y ago
How has Airbnb not been sanctioned by more local governments seeking to curb this behavior? Just like Napster, Uber, and all of the other "sharing economy" apps that have popped up in the past 20 years, Airbnb's profit model
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SpaceX Successfully Launches 16th Mission of the Year(arstechnica.com)
9 points by recondite 9y ago|0 comments
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by recondite 9y ago
I'm all for some implementation of UBI, or more broadly, less inequality in society, but the numbers just don't add up to support it (yet). Even if you took all of the US Federal transfer programs (Social Security, Medicare, etc..
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by recondite 9y ago
Surprised this isn't higher given the demographics of HN. Another one that felt similar to me, but more focused on mass media specifically and its effect on society, was Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Be warned, you will h
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by recondite 9y ago
Don't forget California also has one of the higher population growths rates in the country. There's still no serious long-term plan for how California is going to handle droughts in the future proposed by any lawmakers, and the gr
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by recondite 10y ago
Amazing metaphor. I'm going to use that :)
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by recondite 10y ago
Interesting take, but isn't this also the motivation for companies to automate as much of their workforce as possible? Nobody really wants to take orders at McDonald's for $9/hour and Ronald McOwner doesn't want to pay h
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by recondite 11y ago
Having attended school in California at a community college, UC, and finally an elite, private university I couldn't more agree with your characterization. I don't know how much I would agree with the claim that the stratification
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by recondite 11y ago
Don't believe the reviews. I was considering a position there, and did some research into the company culture (because everything else about them just seemed impossibly awesome, with the exception of pay). Apparently, they had a fairly
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by recondite 11y ago
Privacy is dead. Not just as we knew it, but every dystopian prediction of the future where we are ID'd, tagged, and tracked at every action has already come true. Not for the sake of some vast government surveillance apparatus (while
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by recondite 11y ago
You're totally missing the point of what I'm saying. They are putting themselves at a significant competitive disadvantage by incurring a drastically higher yearly operating expense, expenses which their competitors (in a very sat
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by recondite 11y ago
Look man, your math is still off: You are assuming too many things and you HAVE to account for the fact that the minimum wage is going to be $70k, so the minimum average wage possible is $70k (i.e. everybody is making 70k). Thus, there is
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by recondite 11y ago
Yeah, I get the sense that it's just Dan too. Which means this is even more likely to fail. Don't get me wrong, I totally support this from a moral perspective and wish more companies would follow suit, but the economics of this m
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by recondite 11y ago
Your numbers and math are wrong. There are 120 employees total and you're only accounting for salary paid directly to employees (good rule of thumb is employer pays an additional 25-40% of your actual salary in employer taxes/expe
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by recondite 11y ago
I commend the spirit of what this CEO is trying to do, but if I am an investor, director, or just even regular employee I would have serious reservations about this business strategy. > pay for the wage increases by cutting his own salar
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by recondite 11y ago
Just don't forget, the primer is 3-dimensional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgPSUer1ujM There, I just saved us like a week's worth of effort.
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by recondite 11y ago
Oh man, my fondest early memories with computers was modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files so I could play DOS games. I can only describe the feeling of finally figuring it out and getting a certain game to work as pure joy. Conve
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by recondite 11y ago
Project Euler has something similar. After solving each challenge, you're given access to the message board for that problem where people post their code and discuss how they solved it. The problems tend to become more focused on math
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by recondite 11y ago
Haha, I love it. There was a SIGBOVIK submission a couple years ago that looked at byte patterns within video game RAM (specifically NES) to automate the playing of. Pretty entertaining stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by recondite 11y ago
> I think Palantir is basically shit. Wait and watch. That's a pretty bold statement. I've worked with them as well, and definitely don't buy into the hype either. But when the latest financing round (~Jan 2015) has them v
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by recondite 12y ago
Sounds like an equity refresh(er). Companies will grant refreshes to vested employees like you (i.e. past the 1-year cliff) to incent and award performance, and they are often given in lieu of a larger yearly cash bonus, which totally makes
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by recondite 12y ago
I really want to recommend (upvote) his post, but Medium requires me to sign in with Twitter or Facebook to do so. Great.
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by recondite 12y ago
I find the rest of that specific comment particularly amazing: > How does this relate to politics? Well, I suspect that governments today are more concerned with the loss of their ability to control and regulate the behavior of their ci
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by recondite 12y ago
This should read "why developed societies no longer..." The population growth rate in developing and 3rd world countries is still pretty high, despite what the author claims in the first paragraph.
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Making Sense Out of Chaos(kathleenallen.net)
1 points by recondite 12y ago|0 comments
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by recondite 12y ago
I just got done reading Tim Wu's Master Switch and it covers this theme. Excellent book on the future of the information age.
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by recondite 12y ago
And how far along would Elon Musk and SpaceX be without the decades of research, development, testing, and real-world experimentation done previously by NASA and other government R&D efforts? Your argument presupposes SpaceX hasn't

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